reading a letter / 文読み

This stamp was issued for Universal Postal Union Congress, showing a woman reading a long letter, in her house with great detail of Tatami mat, sliding wooden panels with paper, and a Bonsai pot on wooden floored terrace.

Harunobu Suzuki ( 1724? – 1770 ) was a woodblock print artist and invented slim long legged girls as his style. A reprint of the original art is in the collection of Postal Museum Japan.